A teenager has been left without her intestines and unable to eat food for the last 10 years after a horrific swimming pool accident. Salma Bashir, then five, was on holiday with her family in Alexandria, Egypt, when she accidentally sat on a pool's suction valve. The force was so strong that it ripped her small intestines from her body before anyone had a chance to pull her away. A decade on, now 16, she still doesn’t have small or large intestines or a gallbladder - and her stomach is an open wound that needs to be dressed daily and constantly leaks. Salma, who lives in Pittsburgh with her mum and two younger brothers, still chews food at home so she gets the taste of her mum’s home cooking. But she has to discretely wrap her chewed mouthfuls in tissue and throw them away in a plastic bag at her feet. The teenager would give anything to eat properly again. Salma told Barcroft TV: "I am not the kid who goes, ‘Oh my God, ice-cream.’ I love savoury stuff, I like meat, I like seafood. "I don't technically need to eat but yet somehow I get the sensation that I'm hungry. "Maybe it's a brain thing, maybe it's a mind thing. I have no idea. "It would be awesome to swallow the food again.” Small for her age, Salma relies on a TPN, total parental nutrition bag, hooked up to her body to get the required nutrients. "It's basically a bag full of fluids with all the nutrition you need, such as calcium, sodium, glucose, all the vitamins and everything you need," she explains. "I’m hooked up to that for 20 hours a day. When it first gets hooked up, it's about 15 to 20 pounds. "I'm about four foot three, so I'm very small. The reason I don't absorb food is because I don't have the intestines at all. So there's nowhere for it to go if I eat anything." While on holiday with her family in Alexandria, a then five-year-old Salma wanted to play in the baby pool while her pregnant mother kept an eye on her older brother in the adult pool. Her mum Dena Ghaly remembers: "She went one time and she came back, she went another one it is very close I can see her it is just the third time she went and she didn’t come back." Salma had sat on the pool’s suction valve and the force was so strong that it ripped her small intestines from her body, before anyone had a chance to pull her away. The youngster told: “I was just swimming all of a sudden, I just sat on it by accident. I know the lifeguard tried to pull me out and he couldn't because the suction was so much. "My dad tried to pull me out. And then I know a couple people finally were able to get me out, and when I was taken out, it was so traumatic." Wearing a red swimsuit, at first Dena assumed her daughter’s small intestines were her torn swimming costume. "I found someone carrying her and all her intestines came out from her body, I couldn’t believe that it was intestine I thought at the beginning it was her swimming suit." Salma added: "It was horrible. But the good thing is it w
A teenager has been left without her intestines and unable to eat food for the last 10 years after a horrific swimming pool accident. Salma Bashir, then five, was on holiday with her family in Alexandria, Egypt, when she accidentally sat on a pool's suction valve. The force was so strong that it ripped her small intestines from her body before anyone had a chance to pull her away. A decade on, now 16, she still doesn’t have small or large intestines or a gallbladder - and her stomach is an open wound that needs to be dressed daily and constantly leaks. Salma, who lives in Pittsburgh with her mum and two younger brothers, still chews food at home so she gets the taste of her mum’s home cooking. But she has to discretely wrap her chewed mouthfuls in tissue and throw them away in a plastic bag at her feet. The teenager would give anything to eat properly again. Salma told Barcroft TV: "I am not the kid who goes, ‘Oh my God, ice-cream.’ I love savoury stuff, I like meat, I like seafood. "I don't technically need to eat but yet somehow I get the sensation that I'm hungry. "Maybe it's a brain thing, maybe it's a mind thing. I have no idea. "It would be awesome to swallow the food again.” Small for her age, Salma relies on a TPN, total parental nutrition bag, hooked up to her body to get the required nutrients. "It's basically a bag full of fluids with all the nutrition you need, such as calcium, sodium, glucose, all the vitamins and everything you need," she explains. "I’m hooked up to that for 20 hours a day. When it first gets hooked up, it's about 15 to 20 pounds. "I'm about four foot three, so I'm very small. The reason I don't absorb food is because I don't have the intestines at all. So there's nowhere for it to go if I eat anything." While on holiday with her family in Alexandria, a then five-year-old Salma wanted to play in the baby pool while her pregnant mother kept an eye on her older brother in the adult pool. Her mum Dena Ghaly remembers: "She went one time and she came back, she went another one it is very close I can see her it is just the third time she went and she didn’t come back." Salma had sat on the pool’s suction valve and the force was so strong that it ripped her small intestines from her body, before anyone had a chance to pull her away. The youngster told: “I was just swimming all of a sudden, I just sat on it by accident. I know the lifeguard tried to pull me out and he couldn't because the suction was so much. "My dad tried to pull me out. And then I know a couple people finally were able to get me out, and when I was taken out, it was so traumatic." Wearing a red swimsuit, at first Dena assumed her daughter’s small intestines were her torn swimming costume. "I found someone carrying her and all her intestines came out from her body, I couldn’t believe that it was intestine I thought at the beginning it was her swimming suit." Salma added: "It was horrible. But the good thing is it w
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